books.google.com - The biota of the earth is being altered at an unprecedented rate. We are witnessing wholesale exchanges of organisms among geographic areas that were once totally biologically isolated. We are seeing massive changes in landscape use that are creating even more abundant succes sional patches, reductions...https://books.google.com/books/about/Biodiversity_and_Ecosystem_Function.html?id=j8OmrBY-6JAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBiodiversity and Ecosystem Function